Potsdam meeting: CDU member and villa owner Wilderink is threatened with expulsion from the party. The CDU sees its principles violated by participating in the meeting of radical right-wingers.

The aim of the meeting was not “to plan any strategies,” “but simply to raise donations that would benefit the social media projects presented,’ writes Wilderinks. “My family is basically welcome collateral damage," he writes in a letter to acquaintances and business partners.